Maple Sugar Time - Five-year-old Esther Snow, shown guiding a pair of powerful oxen through the deep snow in the Berkshire foothills near Williamsburg, is one of the youngest engaged in the annual harvest. With the lid off prices city folk are reported paying up to $8.00 a gallon for the first "run" of the maple crop this season.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Maple Sugar Time - Five-year-old Esther Snow, shown guiding a pair of powerful oxen through the deep snow in the Berkshire foothills near Williamsburg, is one of the youngest engaged in the annual harvest. With the lid off prices city folk are reported paying up to $8.00 a gallon for the first "run" of the maple crop this season.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1947]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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